Financial Business Analyst

Job Requisition Details

REQ: 137460

Closing date: 30 January 2025

Talent Acquisition: Precious Motlhako 

Cluster and Location

Retail and Business Banking 

Johannesburg, Sandton

Hybrid

 

Career Stream

Accounting

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Self: Professional

Job Purpose

To perform financial analysis on business data in order to leverage and communicate effectively with stakeholders; so as to add value to the businesss financial management strategy.

Job Responsibilities

Build research capabilities by collating data from different sources and communicate to all stakeholders.
Communicate solutions and ideas to stakeholders through meetings; presentations and generating reports.
Build and maintain professional relationships with all stakeholders at all levels of the organisations.
Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc).
Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy (e.g. Green Strategy).
Seek opportunities to improve business processes and systems by identifying and recommending effective ways to operate and adding value to Nedbank.
Create new innovative value by identifying analytical opportunities withn Nedbank.
Identify business problems by analysing data and reports from various sources.
Understand impact of scenarios or changes on the business by developing analytical tools for internal and external clients.
Provide meaningful recommendations; explanations and highlights of concerns or anomalies by analysing and interrogating financial information.
Ensure that financial business analysis is conducted in line with the set standards.
Enhance processes; policies and procedures by researching; reviewing current documents and submitting recommendations.
Ensure compliance by following policies and procedures and data integrity.
Contribute to intellectual capital development by providing continuous motivation; mentoring; coaching and on the job skills training.
Manage defined risks in the finance function and risk categories at targeted levels by adhering to internal and external guidelines/policies/ procedures/business rules/ compliance and governance requirements.
Ensure value is maintained by identifying opportunities and potential risk and addressing them.
Support the achievement of the business strategy; objectives and values by reviewing Nedbank and Business Unit Plan and ensuring delivered systems; process; services and solutions are aligned.
Identify training courses and career progression for self through input and feedback from management.
Ensure all personal development plan activities are completed within specified timeframe.
Share knowledge and industry trends with team and stakeholders during formal and informal interaction.
Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes (e.g. operational processes) that will improve the functioning of stakeholders' businesses by highlighting benefits in support of the implementation of recommendations.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

Preferred Qualification

Bachelor of Commerce: Financial Management

Minimum Experience Level

4-6 years' experience in Financial Services Environment

3+ years of experience with data analysis

3+ years of experiencing using SQL

Technical / Professional Knowledge

Behavioural Competencies